A few weeks ago, I told you about our family’s latest BHAG (big, hairy, audacious goal) of saving $10,000.
This wasn’t exactly a goal we chose…rather one our old house thrust upon us. (Thanks, whoever didn’t install the windows correctly and caused all of our foundation to rot away.)
sigh
Well, after weeks of ignoring the blog again (sorry about that), I figured I owed you an update.
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So I told you I had some exciting in the works for you…but I kinda lied.
I mean, I do think it’s exciting. But it’s also coming from a place of anxiety and worry (if I’m totally honest with you).
Eh, I guess I killed the mystery using a title like Save $10,000 Fast, right?
But you guessed it…that’s our BHAG (big, hairy, audacious goal) for 2022.
Funny enough, my Hubby and I thought our big hairy goal of finally adding on to our house in 2021 was going to be one of those life events you can celebrate, and then you can kind of chill out for a year or so.
Addition work, still in progress.
hahaha!
Life literally never works that way.
Here’s the story. As we were finishing up the big part of our home addition, we discovered that parts of our house that was built in the 1950s…
I mean, it is February in Ohio, so that’s not exactly shocking. Still, any time you get a fat layer of ice topped with another layer of snow…well, you’d better prepare for power outages and shut ins.
We knew we needed more space, but I have to admit…the idea of even getting started was overwhelming. What are the steps to building an addition to your house?
I mean, could we even afford it?
If so, how would we get the money to cover everything?
Then, where do we even go from there?
But my biggest worries were… how to find trustworthy contractors? And what added expenses would crop up once we got started?
(That one ended up being a doozy. But I didn’t know how big of a doozy it would be until just a week ago.)
After taking a good 9 months (plus?) off blogging, I’m finally back in the saddle.
Whoop!
Time to dust off the old “5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week” series and see what fun things we can add to it.
It’s challenging to come up with ideas I haven’t shared before. I mean, come on…I’ve done 162 of these things! I can’t promise there haven’t been repeats.
But I do my darnedest to try to come up with outside the box ideas whenever I can. (Also, I just learned how to spell darnedest for the first time.)
My name is Jamie, and once upon a time, I was a blogger here at Medium Sized Family.
😉 😉
Life in our medium sized family has been c-r-a-z-y for the past year. So much so that I had to let a ball drop. Unfortunately, that ball turned out to be the blog.
You know, sometimes I look around and see other rock star women who manage to homeschool their children, do a home makeover, and run an amazing blog, all while giving birth and keeping a well stocked freezer. And it turns out, I am not that woman.
(No, I did not give birth again in the past year. But the homeschooling and home renovation stuff, yeah. We did that. I also ran for a political office in our small town. And now we have 3 high schoolers, all in different high schools.)
But for now, let’s focus on that whole home renovation part, shall we?
We Have a Second Bathroom!
(Spoiler alert!)
A dream that we’ve had for the 13.5 years we’ve lived in this house is to have a second bathroom.
Having 8 people in a house with only one bathroom goes EXACTLY like you would think it would go.
There’s always a line. Always.
(Really? It’s 2 a.m. and someone is in the bathroom? Uh huh.)
The room smells like 5 boys use it all the time.
It’s not pretty, no matter how many ways I try to paint it.
That was life for 13 years and 6 months (almost exactly) (but who’s counting?).
But finally, my dreams have come true! I have my own bathroom in my own master bedroom!
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